Best group: why Queen are the champions

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The Best Group Performance category was the most popular, and also the one with the clearest winner: Queen at Live Aid in 1985. Now, as we all know, Queen’s 20-minute performance certainly ranks as one of the defining moments in live pop history.

However, there was evidence of gerrymandering at work. A Queen fan website posted the voting link on its pages and encouraged fans to vote. Which they did in their thousands, ensuring that Queen won the vote. Doubtless they would have roared home in this category anyway. Queen fans should realise that they are only cheating themselves.